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nanoCAD 24 Platform

nanoCAD 24 Platform is a professional-grade CAD platform fully compatible with the industry’s DWG standard. It offers the standard user interface with a wide set of tools for 2D/3D drafting that can be extended with modules specific to the needs of professionals in engineering, architecture, and construction.

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3D Solid Modeling Module

3D Solid Modeling module extends the nanoCAD platform with direct editing and parametric modeling. The module also offers 3D constraints for mating parts into 3D assemblies and provides tools for sheet metal modeling.

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Mechanica Module

Mechanica module extends the nanoCAD platform with 2D and 3D mechanical design. Its parametric engine works with the included library of standard parts, and the many built-in calculators generate drawings quickly.

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Construction Module

Construction module extends the nanoCAD platform with drafting utilities suitable for parametric designs in architecture, engineering, and construction. Its IFC support and parametric libraries of standard parts help automate construction drawings.

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Raster Module

Raster module extends the nanoCAD platform with tools designed specifically for handling raster images, including very large ones. These tools import, correct, skew, convert, colorize, vectorize, and smart select raster images.

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Topoplan Module

Topoplan module extends the nanoCAD platform with digital terrain modeling. Surveyors can take advantage of tools that create and modify TINs, texture them with raster overlays, generate reliefs, and calculate volumes and areas.

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nanoCAD 3DScan

nanoCAD 3DScan is a versatile 3D scanning application designed for in-depth data analysis and modeling. It's ideal for engineering, construction, and geodesy, as it enhances the nanoCAD Platform with advanced point cloud processing and real-world data integration.

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nanoCAD Free

nanoCAD Free is the free version of nanoCAD that comes with a set of design tools for creating 2D engineering drawings and has no time limitations.

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nanoCAD Mechanica Bundled Solution includes:

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nanoCAD 3DScan is always paired with nanoCAD Platform + 3D Module. The Topoplan module, necessary for creating topographic maps, is an optional add-on.

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- Working with Commands
- nanoCAD User Interface
- Interface. The nanoCAD Button
- Quick Access Toolbar
- Interface. Ribbon
- Main Menu
- Interface. Toolbars
- Interface. Drawing Window
- Interface. Context Menu
- Interface. Properties Bar
- Command Line
- Status Bar
- Restore UI State
- Managing Interface Elements
- Application Look
Working With Documents
- Opening a document
  - Opening a Document
  - Float Document Window
- Creation of New Document
- Saving a Document
- Export
  - Export
  - Integration with CAE Fidesys
- Import
- CAD Standards
- Utilities
- Working with Documents
- Drawing Properties
- Closing a Document
- Create Transmittal Package
- File Explorer
- Drawing Comparison
Tuning nanoCAD
- Transferring user interface settings
- Tuning program parameters
- Graphic subsystem settings
- Customize User Interface
- Design settings
- Migration of Settings from Previous Versions
- Drawing Units
- Scale List
- Symbol Scale and Measurement Scale
- System Variable Monitor
Coordinate Systems
- User Coordinate System
- Coordinate Systems
Precision tools
- Precision modes
- Precision Tools
- 2D Constraints
Graphic Display Management
- 3D Navigation
- Order of objects
- Control the Display of Objects (Isolation)
- Viewports of Model Space
  - Viewports of Model Space
  - Managing Viewports from the Command Line
- Visual Styles Editor
- Display Modes
- Setting of the Orthographic and Isometric Views
- Managing the Display of Annottaive Objects
- Visual Styles
- Managing display of line weight on the screen
- Managing Named Views
- Isodraft
- Drawing Regeneration
Objects’ Properties
- “Properties” bar
- Layers
- Layers Functional Bar
  - VP Freeze Layer in All Viewports Except Current
  - Layers Functional Bar
- Line Types
  - Line Types
  - Linetype Editor
- Distributing Objects by Layers
- Objects’ Properties
- Drawing Explorer
- Select Color Dialog Box
- Managing the Transparency of Objects
Geometric objects
- Construction and reference geometry
- Linear Objects
- Curved Objects
- Geometric Objects
Editing Objects
- Selection of objects
- Ways to edit objects
- Commands to edit geometric objects
- Commands to edit objects
  - Path Array
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  - Polar Array
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  - Array
  - Commands to Edit and Replicate Objects
  - Copy
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  - Move
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  - Distributing Copies
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  - Fillet
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  - Explode All nanoCAD Objects
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Creating and editing complex objects
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  - Block Insertion
  - Editing Block Definition (Block Redefinition)
  - Block Editor
  - Exploding a Block Reference
  - Managing Blocks in the Current Drawing
  - Saving a Block in a Separate File
- Proxy Objects
  - Proxy Objects
  - Removing Proxy Objects
  - Exploding Proxy Objects
- External references control
  - External References Manager
  - Bind External References
  - Bind Named Objects of External References
  - External References Notification
  - Renaming Named Objects
- Underlays
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  - Insert Underlay
- Show boundary
  - Setting Clip
  - Setting of the Show Boundary for a Raster Image
  - Show Boundary
  - Setting of the Show Boundary for the Block or External Reference
  - Boundary
  - Setting Viewport Border for Underlay
- External References Control (Classic Version)
- Binding and Embedding OLE-Objects
- Open OLE-Object
- Update All OLE-Links
- Using Drawing Explorer to Work with Groups
- Clip Map Underlay
- Unload Map Underlay
- Load map underlay
- Insert Map Underlay
- Insert OLE-Object
- Updating Links of OLE-Objects
- Groups of Objects
- Object Grouping Dialog
- Insert External Reference
- Edit References
- Hyperlinks
Working with raster images
- Create new image and rasterize objects
- Displaying quality of raster images
- Correcting raster image geometry
- Color correction
- Filtering color raster images
- Color reducing
- Monochrome filtering
- Raster drawing
- Digitizing raster data (vectorization)
- Working with Raster Images
- Insert Raster Image
- Separate Raster Image
- Embed Raster Image
- Image Settings
- Selecting Data in Raster Images
- Separation by Type and Size
- Rasterization
Execution of Drawings commands
- The Filling and Hatch Commands
  - Overriding Layer for New Hatches and Fills (HPLAYER)
  - Creating Hatch
  - Hatch Dialog Box
  - The Filling and Hatch Commands
  - Gradient Fill
  - Fast Hatch
  - Fast Gradient
  - Modify Hatched Areas
- Work with Text
  - Arc Text
  - Work with Text
  - Text
  - Multiline Text
  - Background Mask for Multiline Text
  - Editing Text
  - Justification of the Text Objects
  - Editing the Content of the Text Objects
  - Creating a Text Style
  - Spellchecker
  - Find and Replace Text
  - Convert Text to Multiline Text
  - Justify Text
  - Text Fit
  - Explode Text
  - Change Text Case
  - Quick Text Mode
  - Field
  - Update Field
  - Edit Field
  - Convert Field to Text
- Dimensioning
  - Dimensioning
  - Dimensioning with a Single Command
  - Ordinate Dimensioning
  - Group Dimensioning
  - Base Dimensioning
  - Chain Dimensioning
  - Radial Dimensioning
  - Big Radius Dimensioning
  - Horizontal, Vertical and Aligned Dimensioning
  - Diameter Dimensioning
  - Angular Dimensions
  - Arc length dimensioning
- Dimensions editing
  - Dimensions Editing
  - Oblique Dimension
  - Break and Restore Dimensions
- Dimension styles
  - Offset Dimension
  - Modify a Dimension Style
  - Dimension styles
- Multileader
  - Multileader
  - Removing Leader Lines from the Multileader
  - Adding Leader Lines to the Multileader
  - Aligning Multileaders
  - Collecting Multileaders
  - Multileader Style Manager
- Notes
  - Mechanical Note
  - Construction Note
  - Comb Leader Note
  - Section Note
  - Note for Multilayered Constructions
  - Node Note
  - Linear Aligned Note
  - Chain Note
  - Editing the Leaders
  - Advanced Grips for Design Elements
- Tables
  - Tables
  - Editing Tables on the Drawing
  - Interface of the Table Editor Dialog
  - Cell Properties dialog
  - Editing the Size of Rows and Columns
  - Work with MS Excel
  - Page Division
  - Convert Tables
  - Expression Builder
  - Report Creation
  - Grouping and Merging Cells
- .dwg Tables
  - Insert .dwg Table
  - Table Styles .dwg
- Getting Inquiry
  - Distance
  - Point Coordinates
  - Cumulative Length
  - Area
  - Cumulative Area
  - List
  - Inquiry
  - Mass Properties
  - Set Variable
- Features of the design elements
  - The Edit Command
  - The DDEdit Command
  - The FEdit Command
  - The In Place Edit Command
  - Parameters Redefinition
  - Regenerate
- Shape
- Topographic Hatches
- Boundary
- Region
- Solid
- Wipeout
- Revision Cloud
- Calculator
- Notepad
3D Modeling and Visualisation
- Surfaces
  - Box
  - Wedge
  - Cone
  - Sphere
  - Torus
  - Pyramid
  - Dish
  - Dome
  - Mesh
  - 3D Mesh
  - 3D Face
- Light Sources
- Materials
- Surfaces
- 3D Module
- Texture Editor
Tool Palettes
- Tool Palettes
Point Clouds
- Point Clouds Display Settings
- Information
- Point Clouds
- Import of Point Clouds
- Export of Point Clouds
- Extract from View
- Create a new Cloud Based on Clipping
- Exporting Cloud Data to a Database
- Transformation to Default Coordinates
- Point Clouds Data Formats
- Configuring Connections to Database
- Recalculation of point cloud coordinates
- Import Cloud Data from DBMS
- Managing Point Cloud Revisions in the Database
- Recalculation of point cloud coordicates
- Work with DBMS-Based Point Cloud Storage
Topoplan module
- Creating Geopoints
  - Description Key Sets and Description Keys
    - Description Key Sets
    - Description Keys
  - Create Geopoints Group Manually
  - Geopoint Object
  - Create Geopoints Manually
  - Create Geopoints by Interpolation
  - Create Geopoints by Points and Texts
  - Convert Points
  - Creating Geopoints by Surface
- Creating surfaces
  - Create TIN by Points
  - Exploding a Cloud into Points
  - Import Elevation Grid
  - Converting Model to 3D Faces
  - Converting Model to SubMesh
  - Converting Model to Polyface Mesh
- Tools to work with surfaces
  - Add a Group of Points
  - Flip Edge
  - Delete Edge
  - Add Vertex
  - Delete Vertex
  - Change Elevation
  - Moving a Vertex
  - Add Structure Line
  - Mesh Boundary
  - Cut Mesh
  - Classification Mesh
- Tools to work with relief elements
  - Manage Block Marker Attributes
  - Offset of a 3D-Polyline
  - Project Objects onto a Surface
  - Create Contour Lines
  - Delete Contour Lines
  - Creating Bergstriches
  - Contour Lines Labels
  - Building a Profile Line
  - Projecting a Line onto a Mesh
  - Correction of Zero Elevation
- Texturing and Calculation
  - Formation of a Legend
  - Flat Texture Overlay
  - Raster Texture Mapping
  - Mesh Coloring by Height
  - Calculating Volumes between Models
  - Calculting Surface Area
  - Calculating Surface Volume
- Import and export
  - Import of KML/KMZ files
  - Import Geopoints
  - Import from LandXML
  - Export to LandXML
  - Import from GIS
  - Export to GIS
- Importing Geo-linked Rasters
- Add Measurement File
- Mesh Seal Holes
- Creating Marker Styles of Geopoints
- Hide Frames
- 2D Slope
- Create Layouts by Frames
- Save to Measurement Archive
- Edit Marker Style of Geopoints
- Converting to Meshes or 3D Faces
- 3D Slope
- Delete frames
- Save as Geounderlay
- Adding Edge
- Conventional Signs
- Editing Properties of Geopoint Groups
- Recalculation of Coordinates by EPSG Codes
- Search for Key Lines on the Surface
- Create View Frames
- Creating Geopoint Groups by Original Description
- Surface Difference
- Edit Label Styles of Geopoints
- Measurement Archive
- Export Geopoints
- Creating Customized Library of Conventional Signs
- Attach GeoUnderlay
- Import measurements
- Mesh Simplification
- New Topoplan
- Topoplan Module
- Creating Label Styles of Geo points
The Component Layout and Plot Drawing
- Work with Layouts
- Viewports
- Document Plot
- Model space and paper space
EDS
- EDS
Sheet Set
- Sheet Set Manager Functional Bar
- Sheet Set Properties
  - Sheet Set Properties
  - Sheet Set Custom Properties
- Blocks in the Sheet Sets
- Sheet Set
- Create Sheet Set
- Open Sheet Set
- Actions on sheet set and its elements
Command Scripts and Extensions
- Software Extensions
- Creating Commands from Downloadable Applications and Command Scripts
- Command Scripts
- Script Editor (JS, VBS, LSP, DCL, SCR)
- Run nanoCAD from Command Line with Program Module
Mechanica Module
- INTRO
- Basic knowledge
- SETTINGS
- WORKING WITH STANDARD ELEMENTS
- DESIGNING
- ENGINEERING ANALYSIS
- DRAWING SPECIFICATIONS
- DRAWING DESIGN
- EDITING
- MECHWIZARD
- DEVELOPER'S GUIDE DATABASE
- UTILITIES
Construction Module
- MechWizard
- INTRO
- BASIC KNOWLEDGE
- SETTINGS
- DRAWING DESIGN
- EDITING
- UTILITIES
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- Saving in demo mode
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